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HeartBot chatbot helps women recognise heart disease
HeartBot, an AI chatbot built by a University of California team led by nurse scientist Yoshimi Fukuoka, answers women's questions about heart disease.
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scienceOct 2026New
CPSC names Beth Puchek Chief Artificial Intelligence Officer
The US Consumer Product Safety Commission appointed its Chief Data Officer, Beth Puchek, as Chief AI Officer.
scienceOct 2026New
Illinois names Tamara Roust chief AI officer
The Illinois Department of Innovation and Technology tapped Tamara Roust, previously the state's chief data officer, as chief AI officer.
scienceOct 2026New
Google DeepMind's Lila Ibrahim makes the 2026 list
Lila Ibrahim, chief AI readiness officer at Google DeepMind, was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026.
scienceOct 2026New
Jade Leung of the AI Security Institute is named in the 2026 top 50
Jade Leung, vice-chair of the AI Security Institute and security adviser to the government AI taskforce, was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026.
scienceOct 2026New
Laura Gilbert, senior director of AI at the Tony Blair Institute, makes the 2026 list
Laura Gilbert was named in Computer Weekly's 50 Most Influential Women in UK Tech 2026 for her work leading AI.
scienceOct 2026New
Rosemary Francis is one of Computer Weekly's Women in Tech to Watch 2026
Rosemary Francis, a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, founded a network for AI founders this year and is its chief technology officer.
scienceOct 2026New
Zahra Shah, chair of UKAI's Women in AI Working Group, is named in the 2026 top 50
Zahra Shah, board adviser at NexaQuanta and co-founder of the AI privacy platform Seers, was seventh in Computer Weekly's 2026 list.
scienceOct 2026New
Lila Ibrahim is Google's first Chief AI Readiness Officer
Lila Ibrahim is Google's first Chief AI Readiness Officer, CNBC reports in its Changemakers podcast.
scienceSep 2026New
Evvy raises $40M Series B for AI women's health diagnostics
Women's health startup Evvy, co-founded by CEO Priyanka Jain, raised $40M to build AI-led diagnostics for women's health.
scienceJun 2026
Ovum lands $4M seed for its AI women's health platform
Health tech startup Ovum, shown with Dr Ariella Heffernan-Marks, raised $4M in seed funding to expand its AI-powered women's health platform.
scienceFeb 2023
Cambridge study: only 8% of AI scientists in a century of film are women
Researchers at Cambridge's Leverhulme Centre for the Future of Intelligence found that 92% of AI scientists and engineers on screen in influential films from 1920 to 2020 were men, and argue the stereotype may deter women from AI careers.
science2021
Margaret Mitchell joins Hugging Face
AI ethics researcher Margaret Mitchell joined Hugging Face.
science2021
Timnit Gebru founds the DAIR Institute
Timnit Gebru founded the Distributed AI Research Institute, an independent home for community-rooted AI research.
science2018
Daphne Koller founds insitro
Daphne Koller founded insitro, which uses machine learning to discover new medicines.
science2016
Joy Buolamwini founds the Algorithmic Justice League
Joy Buolamwini founded the Algorithmic Justice League to raise awareness of bias in AI.